Marino Orsini

Marino Orsini (1809-1883) was a general of the short-lived Perugine Republic during the Perugine Revolution.

Biography
Marino Orsini was born in Viterbo, Papal States in 1809 to a military family, the son of a veteran of the Italian Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars. Orsini continued the family tradition of serving in the Papal Army, and he fought against Giuseppe Garibaldi's patriotic Redshirts when they invaded the Papal States in 1860. After the fall of the Papal States, he commanded the 3,000-strong 1st Viterbo Infantry Regiment of the Royal Italian Army, but he mutinied in 1872 to join the nascent Perugine Republic. Orsini led this "1st Army" against the Italians when they sent 13,000 troops to crush the Perugine Revolution, but his army was defeated at Perugia, and Orsini was forced to flee to Marseille in France to avoid capture and execution. Orsini died there in 1883.